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This means Sketch is now tied to VC’s revenue growth demands. Framer went down the same path of VC megabuck-driven development and a vocal part of the community seems unhappy with the outcome.

A few years back, the Sketch founder made a convincing case in interviews for why the product is better off when they’re bootstrapped... This turn of events suggests they might be feeling the heat from well-funded competitors like Figma and Invision.

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I‘m sure that Bohemian Coding are _very_ scared of Figma. Just read the comments here - many switch from Sketch to Figma now. Multi-platform is more important than ever, with alienated Mac users switching to Win/Linux, and the iPad Pro becoming a part time computer for many. Having real-time collaboration also doesn’t hurt - Sketch cloud is way behind this.

If they don’t act now, fast, they will soon become irrelevant.

I'm in the industry in the Netherlands, and as far as I've heard, they think it isn't even the same game. I guess they're about to be surprised.

When my super hip designer friend suddenly pitched Figma instead of Sketch, I knew that things are getting serious. He has been a strong proponent for Sketch for years, but not any longer.

> real-time collaboration also doesn’t hurt

No, that's not the icing on the cake. That's the primary reason for why design teams are switching to Figma. This changes so much, you wouldn't believe: primarily because it means effectively side-stepping version control pains. With Sketch you either have to use external software (Abstract, Plant etc.) or resort to manual “check-outs” while working in design team. With Figma this problem simply doesn't exist.

That’s a great argument, thank you.

I opened this comment section just to see if there would be an alternative I could try on Linux. Going to look into figma when I home.

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